Ellwood City, PA [OCA] - The annual pilgrimage to the Monastery of the Transfiguration here was held Friday and Saturday, August 5-6, 2011, in conjunction with its patronal feastday.

Over 500 pilgrims joined the monastic sisterhood and area clergy from the OCA, the Romanian Episcopate, the Bugarian Diocese, the Antiochian and Greek Archbishops, and the Carpatho-Russian Diocese in the celebration of the patronal feast.

The Orthodox Church in America

The Mission of The Orthodox Church in America, the local autocephalous Orthodox Christian Church, is to be faithful in fulfilling the commandment of Christ to “Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…”